Allan, who lives just outside York, is the proud owner of a 1988 Zastava Yugo 45. The model was first available in 1981 and cost around £3,000 at the time. It’s cheap price meant it undercut it ...

AN OWNER of a ridiculously cheap car from the 1980s considered to be the “worst in history” says he actually loves it. The Yugo 45 was a small car that was built in the former Yugoslavia and ...

Allan Smyes, 50, from just outside York is the owner of one of just two surviving UK-registered examples of the 'worst car in ...

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Few cars evoke a sense of truly barebones motoring like a Yugo. Sometimes cited as the worst car in history and the most hated car ever sold in the United States, the fundamental philosophy of the ...

But now it has a retro feel that is almost...cool. According to Autopian, the car, called the Zastava Yugo, is an "Eastern European bargain-basement car that has advanced to cult status." ...

Its reputation suffered further in 1989 when 31-year-old Leslie Pluhar plunged off the Mackinac suspension bridge in Michigan in her Yugo. The Zastava car factory in the central Serbian town of ...

Built by a European firm called Zastava in a factory with Cold War-era tooling and limited quality control, the Yugo was based on an old Fiat engine and came with equally dated engineering.

The car in question is the Zastava Yugo - widely considered one of the biggest automotive travesties ever sold in Britain. The Yugo was so bad that there's even a book dedicated to it called ...

because the Yugo is back. Yep, entrepreneur, engineer, automotive exec and university professor Dr. Aleksandar Bjelić has acquired the naming rights to Zastava’s communist cult hero ...